The modern cityIn 1833, the modern town of Turnu Severin made its appearance as a commercial town which was developed following the plans drawn up by the engineer Xavier Villacrose (1835).
The Quarantine hospital (1836-1839)
It was facing the Danube and had a rectangular shape, including streets which made traffic easier. Several small squares offer a particular charm to the town.
As its erection was a difficult one, the central administrations made arrangements to sell building land to foreigners, too. This is how Germans and Austrians. Serbians, Jews, Greeks and Macedo-Romanians, Armenians, Turks, Bulgarians, Italians and French people came to settle down here.
It is only after 1841 that the town witnesses a somehow accelerated development.
In I860, the town limits were being settled on the main roads: Craiova Boundery. Varciorovei Boundary (towards the town of Orsova), Agency Boundary (towards the port) and Fair Boundary (northwards). It was then that the weekly fair was moved to the eastern end of the town (towards the village of Cerneti).
The town officials gave their attention to introducing lighting, sewerage and to paving streets and markets with river stone.
In 1863, the necessary sums of money to build the townhall and the fireman command were finally funded.
The Former Town Hall
In 1888 the Townhall is modernized, repaired and added a storey. It was then that the name ,,The Municipal Palace" was proudly attributed to it.
The Administrative Pallace
,,Turnu Severin shows itself in the sunset as in the middle of a decor. Widened, the Danube cuts a curve in the Romanian bank and pushes the town up on a top coverd with trees, the thicket of which discloses overlapped houses enveloped in red hallow dies... A western town with beautiful buildings, great schools, wide and straight streets..." (Alexandria Vlahuta, Picturesque Romania")
Major Strehaianu Street - Theodor Costescu Street today
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